We are bound to be honest, but not to be rich. Pr.
We are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow. Bible.
We are children for the second time at twenty-one, and again when we are grey and put all our burden on the Lord. J. M. Barrie.
We are come too late, by several thousand 20 years, to say anything new in morality. The finest and most beautiful thoughts concerning manners have been carried away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the more ingenious of the moderns. La Bruyère.
We are content with personating happiness—to feel it is an art beyond us. Mackenzie.
We are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Landor.
We are created to seek truth; to possess it is the prerogative of a higher power. Montaigne.
"We are creatures that look before and after," the more surprising that we do not look round a little, and see what is passing under our eyes. Carlyle.
We are great philosophers to each other, but 25 not to ourselves. Bulwer Lytton.
We are here for the express purpose of stamping on things perishable an imperishable worth. Goethe.